I’ve got Ho-Hum Friday syndrome something bad today. It must be the beautiful weather that we’ve had here all week. Too bad it’s the only weekend I have off for the next 3 weeks. Oh well, you take the bad with the good.
Not alot to post about today, but I remembered that I had left out the fact that I had picked up NHL07 on that same trip to BestBuy. I was actually excited to try it out this year after being so disappointed last year. The hype on this year’s version was pretty good. From all of the sites I visited, this year’s version was to include a shooting function for the right analog stick, and had reworked the gameplay to do away with the speed burst button. All of these new features were supposed to take the NHL series more toward simulation play….
… Unfortunately, none of the sites I visited made the key distinction that all of the new features were to be implemented on the Xbox360 version only. What a waste! Being a PC-only gamer, I am once again disappointed as EA is the only option I have for PC Hockey aside from the text-based Eastside Hockey Manager(I will be checking this out soon. I played it about 3 years back and was pretty impressed.)
Anyway, I am really upset that I wasted my money on what seems to be a roster update instead of a game full of new features. I felt I should put this out to let any other PC hockey gamers know. I also emailed the guys over at sportsgamer and ended up getting some unexpected love for my efforts.
